@skiant do you mean this? https://github.com/deiu/solid-plume

@pixelpaperyarn can't find it again but somebody's working on Medium but with ActivityPub.

@woozle i read a lot of really great threads on birbsite, stuff that someone has to break up into tiny chunks with choppy prose to fit their thoughts in. when they're actually larger thoughts that i would love to see as fully formed thoughts.

folks used to do that on blogs. i miss reading that way.

@pixelpaperyarn I've heard those called "Tweetstorms", or on Mastodon "tootstorms".

I've seen @dredmorbius use the #tootstorm hashtag. Maybe that's something to promote.

I've done a few here, but I don't think I tagged them. When I have a longer-form thought to post, I usually post it on my Hubzilla instance (https://hub.iseeamess.com/channel/woozle) and just link it from here.

...for the formatting features, if nothing else.

(Aside: wish more people would use Hubzilla.)

@woozle @pixelpaperyarn I'd been using that hashtag (#tootstorm) mostly so I could find my own longer-chain bits myself. The term's not mine.

I have been known to ... abuse ... the form a tad. I think 60-80 toots is about my max ;-)

@pixelpaperyarn (a more serious answer: there is something about the microblogging format that gets me past serious mental blocks around writing in longer forms. 500 characters at a time I can manage. a wide open empty text field that can hold thousands of words defeats me.)

@kara yes! and i do get that and often i can fit my thought into 500 or even just a second post.

i think tumblr is kind of my ideal tbh. it's awkward to post too much prose there, but i can get a whole thought out.

@pixelpaperyarn Tumblr, wow :o I can barely stand to look at that site, much less use it...

@kara i'm referring mostly to the form factor. it's basically really big twitter. still a scroll of stuff, lots of art (depending on who you follow), but there's breathing room for prose. at the same time, single sentence posts feel natural, too.

@pixelpaperyarn Tumblr might be more tolerable if it got rid of infinite scrolling, banned reposting, and had a proper comment scheme... for starters

@gamehawk yes. i've mentioned in other replies, but this is what i think poor old tumblr gets right as far as form factor/post format.

single sentence posts live next to slightly longer prose posts without feeling awkward. readmore is relevant and used. at the same time there's enough casualness to it that it feels okay to publish unpolished thoughts.

@bootblackCub i think this was a nice gap that tumblr filled in its heyday. too much prose was awkward, but you could write a little bit more and get a whole thought out.